Risk is rising as big tech companies like Oracle — the ultimate financial source of the Ellison media empire — need to turn to the bond market for staggering sums to finance data centers.

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    2 days ago

    What’s cool is we’ll soon be propping these shitbags up with tax money, so the whole thing doesn’t go bankrupt.

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      Too big to fail. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Unless we can vote in enough representatives that won’t put up with that absolute bullshit.

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        Yeah, this is exactly the problem with monopolies. They got too big to fail and they expect a fucking bail out from the taxpayers every time.

        We should let them fail. We should break them up in a smaller pieces. The pieces that don’t make any money disappear. The ones that have some financial stability should continue to exist.

        But the true purpose of capitalism is efficiency through Consolidation. The only way to limit capitalisms damaging affects is by regulation. Which will never happen in our current environment because the capitalist oligarch scumfucks bought all parts of the government in order to continue to receive free money from the banks and the government when they fuck up.

        Oh by the way, they also want to take all the proceeds from their ludicrous stoxk valuations when the stock market is good and they want to take your pension fund when the stocks tank because they fucked up and spent all of everyone else’s money.

        Maybe if we don’t pay them out this time private equity will learn something and stop buying and ruining companies in order to invest the ridiculous proceeds into stupid risky speculation on unproven technology.

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      You mean we’ll be in the streets when they try to right? Because just being defeatist about it is an absolute pathetic take.

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        People in the rest of the world will also be affected for at least two reasons:

        1. Pension funds throughout the world is invested in US big tech, and if these companies fall in value, so will their pensions.
        2. A financial crisis caused by US big tech could cause a US recession which will also damage the economies of the rest of the world.
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          As I’ve pointed out elsewhere pension funds may be exposed to AI but the money in your personal fund doesn’t need to be. If you haven’t already moved your retirement investment out of shares then see if that’s possible. I’ve changed mine to conservative settings already and looking at the list its mainly in cash, property, farming and a few manufacturers now with no tech stocks at all. That seems a sensible mix for when the market collapses this time around.